... an image-capture approach won't give the ability to do searches of the text, either, a quite significant shortcoming... -bowerbird ... Thanks for using...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 4:32 pm
... Apparently, a good chunk of American college students (and certainly a lot of businessy types) have laptops. I imagine these kiosks you're describing might...
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David H. Rothman
rothman@xxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 10:11 pm
Folks, I know our list is primarily for publishers, software and hardware people, writers, editors and the other usual suspects; but I suspect that as parents...
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David P. Dillard
jwne@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxxx...
Jul 5, 1999 1:10 pm
Varsitybooks.com will be providing a catalog of online books for use with college courses according to a New York Times article that is excerpted and linked...
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David P. Dillard
jwne@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxxx...
Jul 5, 1999 2:07 pm
This New York Times article, excepted and linked below, discusses various aspects of recording companies to regain control of the distribution of their...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Jul 6, 1999 6:49 pm
welcome back. hope everyone had a nice holiday... i tried to sketch out some rough figures on the fixed and variables costs of publishing, since i was telling...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@...
Jul 7, 1999 3:43 pm
***This is Project Gutenberg's 29th Fourth of July on the Internet!*** **Help us celebrate by keeping us alive as a continuing institution!** *This is the...
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treasure.mountain
treasure.mountain@xxx...
Jul 7, 1999 11:45 pm
... As far as I can tell, the year 2000 etexts aren't available at the PG FTP server (viemeister.com). Where can they be found? Pat ... Thanks for using...
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cruby
cruby@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 12, 1999 3:50 pm
I can tell you why books should be printed for kids...one, dirty fingerprints on the computer screen from pointing to various objects in the pictures. Two,...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Jul 12, 1999 5:18 pm
... sounds like the voice of experience to me... :+) but hey, there's no reason you can't read your kids an electronic book. especially if they're...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 12, 1999 6:31 pm
... You can clean the screen a lot easier than cleaning the books. . . . ... I would think just the opposite. . .you can read over 10,000 books on any laptop...
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Tra-Bar
trabar@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 12, 1999 7:42 pm
Thank you Michael and Bowerbird for responding so well. A child sitting on a parents lap reading an interactive book or child's software program on the ...
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Paula Mader
paula@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 13, 1999 2:46 am
... During Beta testing of the RocketBook, I made exactly that suggestion, as an idea for making it easier for disabled people to use it. I still hope to see...
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Lewis Ward
uczclhw@...
Jul 14, 1999 12:42 pm
Hi, I've just joined this list. Very interesting it is too. My particular interest is the new ebook readers: Rocket ebook, Everybook, Softbook, Librius etc...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Jul 14, 1999 5:22 pm
... out of the mouths of babes. lewis, the fact that these machines do not have an installed user-base _is_ the story here. in other words, what _is_ all the...
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jelefevere@xxx.xxx
Jul 14, 1999 6:32 pm
Hi. I sent the below message on the 1st. Response has been tepid, which isn't a problem. However, I think the eBook Professional Directory could be a...
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Boondock Books
mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.x...
Jul 14, 1999 9:25 pm
... Name or pseudonym? Micheal (Mike) Segroves Hobbyist or professional interest? Professional interest Particular area of expertise. Rights, authoring Line of...
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Chuck219@xxx.xxx
Jul 14, 1999 11:45 pm
Name: Chuck Stewart III Hobbyist or professional interest?: Professional interest (Director of Electronic Publishing for technical book publisher) Particular...
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Richard Seltzer
seltzer@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 15, 1999 1:34 am
... Name or pseudonym? Richard Seltzer Hobbyist or professional interest? author and publisher Particular area of expertise i.e. Rights, authoring,...
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CCrow21993@xxx.xxx
Jul 15, 1999 4:10 am
Mike Coatesworth, a doctor and author in England is a member of EPIC, our electronically published author's association. I'll see if I can get his public web...
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CCrow21993@xxx.xxx
Jul 15, 1999 4:49 am
Do you get Popular Mechanics magazine in England. they have a three page review spread on electronic reading devices and I think it includes all the devices...
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Michael Ward
mjward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Jul 15, 1999 5:12 am
Name or pseudonym? Michael Ward Hobbyist or professional interest? Professional Particular area of expertise i.e. Rights, authoring, programming, etc. Document...
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CCrow21993@xxx.xxx
Jul 15, 1999 5:19 am
In a message dated 7/14/99 3:07:28 PM Central Daylight Time, jelefevere@... writes: << Name or pseudonym? Connie Crow (Pseudo) Constance Todd Hobbyist or...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 15, 1999 7:17 am
From the recent eBookNet Digital Newz, by Glenn Sanders: One of the founding principles that I set when I created eBookNet was to provide unbiased information...
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Serendipity Books
e_books@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 18, 1999 7:05 pm
Two Rocket eBook books have been posted at: www.thegrid.net/bookware/newbooks/rocket.htm They are Serendipity Anthology, Volume 3 (short story collection) and...
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Deena Larsen
textra@xxxxx.xxxx
Jul 18, 1999 11:11 pm
Hypertext Chat: Join us for our second Hypertext Chat. We are holding an online meeting for hypertext writers, readers, programmers, and anyone else interested...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Jul 20, 1999 10:27 pm
... Are tools publically available for creating .RB files or is this a proprietary method only available to the Publishing Industry's Big Names? Is the .RB ...
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Cynthia Mun
mun@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 21, 1999 12:12 am
Thanks for the posting. FYI - the content read on the Rocket eBook is referred to as RocketEditions - both for encrypted and unencrypted. Rocket eBook has been...
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Serendipity Books
e_books@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 21, 1999 2:36 am
The tools Cynthia mentioned work this way: RocketWriter comes with the Rocket eBook and it lets you create ebooks which are compressed into .rb files from (a...
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Serendipity Books
e_books@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 21, 1999 3:01 am
I think that the "new storage method" Joe was referring to was the .rb file format. Compare that with HTML files: --anyone can copy your HTML file --anyone can...
